Means for securing whip-lashes to their handles.



G. BARRETT MEANS FOR SECURING WHIP LASHES TO THEIR HANDLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.,27, 1913.

1,1 19,218. Patented Dec.1,1914.

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GEORGE BARRETT, OF ALFRISTON, MANUREWA, NEW ZEALAND.

MEANS FOR SECURING WHIP-LASHES TO THEIR HANDLES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoncn BARRETT, a citizen of the Dominion of New Zealand, and residing at Alfriston, Manurewa, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Dominion of New Zealand, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Securing Whip-Lashes to their Handles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to driving and stock whips and the like, and provides improved means for securing the loop, to which the lash is attached, to the whip handle. Hitherto it has been customary to form this loop of leather and to bind it upon the end of the handle.

In my invention, the loop is of elastic rubber which may be partly reinforced with leather, and is integral with a sleeve which fits tightly upon the end of the handle.

In a modification, the loop and socket are independent.

The invention is illustrated in the drawing in which :-the figure is a vertical central section showing the loop integrally formed with the socket.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 27, 1913.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

Serial No. 757,179.

The loop 1 is reinforced by a strip of chrome leather or green hide 2 for the pur pose of giving increased strength and reducing wear. The leather may be secured 1n position by vulcanizing or other usual means. The loop is integrally formed with a sleeve 3 which fits tightly upon the end of the handle 4.

What I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is The combination with a whip handle having a reduced portion adjacent its end, of a socket member fitting over said handle, and within said reduced portion, said socket member terminating at one end in an integral flexible loop, and a reinforcing loop of flexible material lining said integral loop, said reinforcing loop extending over the end of said handle and into said reduced portion.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE BARRETT. Witnesses:

JOHN HENRY I-IANsoH, Ennns'r ALFRED Hanson;

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

